63 caveman
Senior Member
This maybe the dumb question of the year.... but here it goes!
I have been avoiding working on this mack for years but finally got shamed into trying to sort it out. It has a long history of not running right and smoking like crazy (white fuel). The owner asked me to pull injectors and have them tested (they tested fine). As I was pulling the injectors I noticed that valve lash seemed very loose, when checking putting the flywheel on valve adjustment marks the clearance is right .016" on intake and .024" on exhaust but when off the timing marks I'm getting much more clearance on valves as much as .070" on exhaust! I have no experience with mack engines but this seems very strange. Should I pull the timing cover and check to see if camshaft is out of time?
I have been avoiding working on this mack for years but finally got shamed into trying to sort it out. It has a long history of not running right and smoking like crazy (white fuel). The owner asked me to pull injectors and have them tested (they tested fine). As I was pulling the injectors I noticed that valve lash seemed very loose, when checking putting the flywheel on valve adjustment marks the clearance is right .016" on intake and .024" on exhaust but when off the timing marks I'm getting much more clearance on valves as much as .070" on exhaust! I have no experience with mack engines but this seems very strange. Should I pull the timing cover and check to see if camshaft is out of time?